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Before Cable Was Cool

A new book tells the story of CNN, Ted Turner, and the birth of the 24-hour news cycle

Lina’s World

The radical architect and designer Lina Bo Bardi transformed Brazil with her ambitious creations

Dog Days Come Early

Those interminable summer days have arrived well in advance of the season itself: 24 hours in the life of, well, everyone

Deepening the Dye

From bird-watching to Warhol-watching, the lockdown is an exercise in patience and concentration

Re-Inventing His Spiel

Walter, Walter, Everywhere

Walter Presents, the streaming service specializing in foreign content, moves into book publishing

Haifaa Al Mansour

The Saudi filmmaker gives audiences a picture of life in her secretive, ultra-conservative home country

Party Time

Stay in Touch

Send a message with the Band, Split Enz, Bonnie Raitt, T. Rex, and more

Final Cut

Parisian cinephiles are in an uproar over the actions of an American real-estate investor

The Radcliffe Five

Murder, They Wrote

Call Him “Mr. President”

Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace

Good in Bed

Cinema’s dreamiest movie scenes are a lesson in lounging glamorously

Is It Curtains for British Theater?

After the lockdown, fears of a “total collapse”

Grant Shaffer’s Sketchbook

Feat of Clay

Being Rodin’s muse and mistress was no easy thing. After her death, Camille Claudel finally got a museum of her own, now open to visitors again

Death in London

Martini, Anyone?

Christine Baranski on The Good Fight, her bathrobe-clad Sondheim tribute, and spending lockdown in a house full of children

Off the Beaten Track

Cool new songs from Frank Ocean, Glass Animals, the 1975, and more

Seeing Double

How a doppelgänger foiled a secret Nazi plot to shoot a plane carrying precious cargo out of the sky

Old Bones, New Tricks

Open Sesame

The Light Side of the Moon

Space Force is a bit like The Office but in outer space. Best of all? Steve Carell returns to comedy